Nancy Pelosi Is Going to Spend Two Years Running Rings Around Donald Trump

[DonViejo]

What happened on Tuesday is just the beginning. The lifelong pol Pelosi has been preparing for this moment her entire career.

Margaret Carlson
12.14.18 10:19 PM ET

For the first time in his political career, Donald Trump has met his match: someone who will stand up to him, call out his lies in real time, and hand him the rope to mansplain himself into a hole he can’t dig himself out of.

Yes, it’s Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi, who womansplained a thing or two to him at their first meeting since the election.

Until then, like a Little Leaguer softened by too many participation trophies and a staff afraid to bring up bad news, the president had soothed himself into believing he’d won the midterms because the GOP captured a few seats in the “upper” chamber. He ignored his loss of a whopping 40-plus seats in the House, and hasn’t absorbed what it will mean to have Paul Ryan, who leapt like a puppy to do his bidding, back in Janesville rereading Atlas Shrugged. As a final gesture of self-debasement, Ryan shoehorned language into the farm bill that would keep the U.S. on the Saudis’ side in Yemen to support Trump in his insistence that maybe the crown prince murdered Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi and maybe he didn’t.

Those days are over. The 2018 midterms were a resounding repudiation of the Trump by energized women, one of whom sat across from him in the Oval Office in the first televised episode of the second season of his presidency. Pelosi has been working toward this moment since she knocked on doors for her father, the Mayor of Baltimore. She not only has an algorithm in her head that tells her which arms she has to twist to pass legislation Trump won’t like; she also has subpoenas in her purse.

As of January, Pelosi will stand between Trump and the few things he wants: to build his wall; to escape Mueller’s noose; and to elude impeachment. Trump may have underestimated Pelosi’s impact on those things from prior encounters when he held all the cards. He tricked her on protecting Dreamers, luring her into thinking he was for it before he was against it. Like many in his adopted party, he brushed her off as a San Francisco Democrat, the worst kind. He thought the talk of “generational change” might remove this pesky woman from his life.

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[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. The WORST thing Trump could do is......

Try to subvert Congress and claim ABSOLUTE POWER. That'll teach Nancy Pelosi to get into Humpty Trumpty's face.

We then will see how many Republicans rush to his aid.

[greymattermom]

2. Absolute power

but no budget? That should be interesting.

[dajoki]

3. he won't be there that long n/t